The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Kano State, Comrade Kabiru Inuwa, has raised alarm over the growing trend of labor casualization in critical sectors such as education and healthcare, as the development hamper effective service delivery in the state.
Speaking during the 2025 May Day celebrations at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, Inuwa said the practice of hiring casual workers in schools and hospitals poses a serious threat to societal development and public health.
“You cannot entrust the future of our children to casual teachers, nor can you allow casual staff to handle lives in our hospitals. These institutions require adequately trained and fully employed personnel,” he said. “Casualization in these sectors is not just a labor issue; it is a societal risk.”
Inuwa cited poor sanitation in hospitals due to uncommitted casual staff as an example of how the practice endangers lives. He urged the state government to convert casual staff in schools and hospitals into full-time employees to ensure accountability and improved service delivery.
The NLC chairman also addressed recent reports of fraud involving salaries of retired local government workers. He dismissed claims that ghost workers are deliberately maintained on the payroll by unions or labor leaders, blaming the anomaly on bureaucratic lapses in retirement processing.
“It’s not true that retirees are illegally drawing salaries with labor’s backing. The delay in processing retirement documents is to blame. Until a retirement is formally processed, the system keeps paying, and the individual continues to receive it,” he explained.
In his address, Kano state governor Abba Kabir Yusuf acknowledged the role played the workers in the development trend of his administration he announced the establishment of several new ministries and agencies such as those focused on housing, security, solid minerals, ICT, and SMEs as somebody the measures taken by his administration to address some of the issues raised.
